Cool article! What the fuck are the rest of the writings on this
substack tho? It reads like e/acc drivel. Is it satire? A weird
multimedia experiment?
Weird multimedia experiment. We're planning to keep publishing a mix of rhetorical/argumentative essays like this one, some fiction, & also more experimental prose.
We're very influenced by Land & the accelerationist standpoint but we feel like this school of thought is becoming a limiting cliche in its own way, & so we are developing our own thesis in relation to it. I would definitely recommend you subscribe if you liked this article because there will be much more to come.
Sorry, I was way too harsh. I actually did really like the tech bro one too. I'm personally very wary of any sort of accelerationist framework, left, right or unaligned, which is why I had a strong reaction (though of course I love Fisher and am also very interested in the old CCRU stuff, in a kind of morbid way). This is especially the case now considering Land's transformation into a straight up reactionary, and watching e/acc shitposters with their billionaire idols recast it as a legitimate shot at utopia, which feels hopelessly naïve and also strongly counter to the original accelerationist project.
Will subscribe though, as what I've seen so far is interesting. Is this a legitimate political project, or are you more interested in just exploring aesthetics?
> Sorry, I was way too harsh. I actually did really like the tech bro one too.
No worries I wasn't offended.
> This is especially the case now considering Land's transformation into a straight up reactionary
Yeah I'm a fan of the 90s Land & am still trying to parse out what exactly the throughline is between the work in Fanged Noumena & his reactionary writing. I think HarmlessAi will need to get to the bottom of this before we can really develop a thesis on Land & determine where we stand in dialogue with him. My thesis on his current work for a period of time was that he is playing a performative villainous character - you could think of the arc in Fanged Noumena as "capitalism is the devil -> I want to do occult rituals to let the devil enter me -> I am now fully possessed by the devil & carry out his will". Or in other words, he is the ultimate devil's advocate. However, lately I feel like there might be more of a more persuasive throughline that I'm missing because I'm not familiar enough yet with certain ideas from Kant.
> and watching e/acc shitposters with their billionaire idols recast it as a legitimate shot at utopia, which feels hopelessly naïve and also strongly counter to the original accelerationist project.
I agree. I don't know if want to address these guys on the substack, it feels like a relevant cultural phenomenon to discuss but I don't know what we would even say other than the obvious.
> Is this a legitimate political project, or are you more interested in just exploring aesthetics?
I wouldn't classify what we are doing as necessarily existing in the political realm per se, but I would say it is a legitimate theoretical project.
>I agree. I don't know if want to address these guys on the substack, it feels like a relevant cultural phenomenon to discuss but I don't know what we would even say other than the obvious.
I reckon you should address it somehow. Even just obliquely. E/acc are on a massive high because the only people who've ever contested (or know about them) are LessWrong posters, which is not exactly a high bar. Someone should take em down a peg.
Cool article! What the fuck are the rest of the writings on this substack tho? It reads like e/acc drivel. Is it satire? A weird multimedia experiment?
Suck on this shibboleth you absolute swine